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Color Wheels and Schemes Lesson PlanColor Wheels and Schemes Lesson Plan
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Grade
9th - 12th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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Duration
3 hrs
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2003
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Color Wheels and Schemes

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Students explore how to use the color wheel in selecting fabric colors for a quilt. They define and demonstrate monochromatic, complimentary, and analogous color schemes. Lesson plan and worksheets are attached in .pdf and .doc formats.

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color schemes, colors, complementary colors, the color wheel, primary colors, secondary colors

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analogous colors, color scheme, color wheel, complimentary colors, monochromatic colors, visual and performing arts

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